Filming

From what I heard about filming, Louis was responsible for the cinematography of the filming of the piece as he had the most vision about the piece and Bronte worked on the lighting of the set to make sure that the characters were properly illuminated. However, there was some problems with the lighting that meant we could not do the 'step by step' flickering of the lights that we had originally planned to do. This was a major set back as this was one of our main visual effects that we had been hoping to do, and therefore we had to think of something else quickly that would be just as effective.

 

Although I was not able to be there, I got regular updates on the filming of the piece. The green screen backdrop was something that we hadn't taken into account when moving characters in front of it, so we had to be really careful on the day although some parts of the green screen might still be compromised by the colour of the hat that Susannah was wearing but we won't know until we get the footage back.

 

The position of the camera was also a really hard thing to get right on the filming set Louis said, as it was nearly impossible from where we had positioned our set to not get Tyler's groups set in the background of our shots- this will have to be something that we will correct in the editing process as there was nothing that we could do about this.

 

 

Shot List for Filming

Here is the proposed shot list for the filming of our uncanny set-

Shots	Angle	Action
Shot 1	Mid Shot	Bess and Peter are both staring across each other’s eye line
Shot 2	Establishing Shot	An establishing shot of the room, and the two sitting there
Shot 3	Mid Shot	Cut back to Bess’s face, as she stares out the window scared
Shot 4	Long shot	A shot of the window at Bess’s eye line, the camera slowly moving forwards
Shot 5	Mid shot	Cut back to Pete’s face staring at the cot
Shot 6	Long shot	A shot of the Cot at Pete’s eye line, the camera slowly moving forwards
Shot 7	Mid shot	Cut back to Pete’s face staring at the cot
Shot 8	Long shot	A shot of the Cot at Pete’s eye line, the camera slowly moving forwards
Shot 9	Mid shot	Cut back to Pete’s face staring at the cot
Shot 10	Long- Mid shot	Pete stands up and starts to walk
Shot 11	Mid shot	A shot of the slider, as Pete slowly walks across to the cot
Shot 12	Close up	Bess becomes more agitated with each step Pete takes- The slider slowly moving on Bess’s face
Shot 12	Wide shot	Pete takes another step closer- slider
Shot 13	Close up	Bess comes more and more agitated, she wants to look over but is to scared, her eyes quickly glance
Shot 14	Mid Shot	Peter takes another step closer. He is within 3 yards now. Again on the slider
Shot 15	Mid Close up	Bess is on the verge of breaking
Shot 16	Close up	Pete’s feet take another step
Shot 17	Mid Close up	Bess, scared breaks into three different versions of herself. Film her being scared three times. Then overlay in editing.
Shot 18	Mid shot	Pete takes a quick glance back and then looks back at the cot
Shot 19	Mid close up	The camera slowly moves towards the cot
Shot 20	Mid shot	Peter takes another step. Darkness.
Shot 20	Low Angle	Peter is stood staring down at the cot. The light flickers allowing him to be seen.
Shot 21	High angle shot	Inside the cot, the ‘baby’ is covered by a white blood stained blanket. Peter pulls off the blanket
Shot 22	Close up	Camera on slider, slowly moves down the baby.
Shot 23	Medium shot	Peter picks out the baby and starts cradling it. Camera on the slider slowly moves away from them
Shot 24	Long shot	Bess is sat rocking in her chair with her head in her hands. Camera slowly moves away
Shot 25	Close up	Blood splatters onto the carpet
Shot 26	Close up	Peter takes one hand of the baby and holds it out. Blood starts splattering on his hand.
Shot 27	Long shot	Peter cradles the baby as it rains blood. The Camera slowly moves away from them.

Finished Set Build

This week I came in to finish the set before the shoot on Monday which I unfortunately will not be attending due to unforeseen circumstances. I will be giving Louis a storyboard and some shot lists for him to look at before the shoot on Monday and will be confirming with Jess hopefully about the flooring.

These are the finished shots of our set- bar the flooring. It was finished on the Thursday as Louis and I had ran out of wallpaper paste on the Wednesday. We did the walls of the set by wallpapering the flats and then painting that layer brown. We did this with various textures of wallpaper, and then when this had dried we got a white textured wallpaper and went over the brown layer with this- ripping when it was dry to show the grime underneath. I then got teabags and painted the white layer over so that it appeared a grimey off-colour cream.

We had previously in the first session we ever had in the workshop assembled our flats and cut out our window, so the only thing left to do to the window was to affix the windowsill that we had cut and painted. We ran into some trouble with this, so Susannah helped us by showing us that we could screw them on by hand and that it would be much safer and easier than using a drill or the hot glue gun - we had tried both.

It has taken a lot of hours of work but I'm really happy with the way that the set has turned out. It looks better than I envisioned that it was going to and I hope that the rest of the team are happy with how the set looks as we did hit some complications on the way such as running out of wallpaper and the lack of being able to find a cot for our uncanny baby to sit in. We found a basket that did just as good of a job however, which was very lucky.

Hopefully the shoot on Monday will go well and I have asked them to keep me up to date with it and also to ask for help if they need it. Its a shame that I can't be there in person but due to unforeseen circumstances I cannot.

Set

It will be our first set design session on Wednesday and we will be going shopping for a few pieces that we need to get. I will be posting what decorations we get here along with hopefully some photos.

We already have the flooring that we are hoping to use, it is just the wallpaper and some set decorations such as a crib (which we are hoping to get from a charity shop of some kind) and an outfit for our creepy uncanny child. Hopefully we can get a crib for a lower price than what we have seen on the internet. The crib doesn't need to be particularly new, seen as we are going with the Eraserhead head look which means that hopefully we can get one for a low price.

I feel like we have most of the things that we need for set decoration, which shortens our process of making up the set in general.

We had our first day building a set, in which we put up 3 of the 4 flats we will be using. We also tested some of the paint that was available from the stores. We decided we needed to buy our own black as it was too water based, so Jess and Bronte have bought some. 

We also got some wallpaper as we are planning to peel back to reveal a distressed wall. This is to make the set appear much more grimy and to help with the sense of uncanny that we are meant to be portraying. We are yet to buy the cot for our scenes but Louis is the one that is selecting this.